Newsletter 6.26.18

Hi all, thanks as always for your amazing support for the show. Here's this week's newsletter. Hope you enjoy!

- Nima, Florence and Adam 

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Do We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee? A Debate. - Rohan Grey & Raúl Carrillo, Rebuttal By Matt Bruenig, In These Times (6/18/18) 

Unironically the sexist debate going on right now. 

DeVos Has Scuttled More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Inherited From Obama - Annie Waldman, ProPublica (6/21/18)

DeVos's attack on education can't be understated, but her attacks on settled civil rights issues is all too often overlooked. 

The North Korea Summit Through the Looking Glass - Branko Marcetic, Jacobin (6/13/18)

In the RussiaGate-addled brain of post-2016 liberalism, opposing peace on the Korean peninsula is highest moral calling. 

WaPo Can’t Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It - Janine Jackson, FAIR (6/22/18)

The Washington Post still clings to the idea the problem with white nationalists is their attack on "civil discourse" rather than them being white nationalists.

The Iran Nuclear Deal, Regime Change, and the Perils of the “Third Way” - Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Jadaliyya (6/12/18)

An uninspired, astroturfed crew ranging from the MEK to a pro-Israel rightwing think tank to monarchists are still trying to push regime change in Iran, despite it having virtually no organic support either in Iran or abroad.  

The U.S. Has Taken More Than 3,700 Children From Their Parents — and Has No Plan for Returning Them - Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept (6/19/18)

The U.S. has created a bureaucratic nightmare for families whose children have been taken away from them.

For WaPo, Subsidizing Bus Fare Is a Lot Like Giving the Rich $5 Trillion - Gregory Shupak, FAIR (6/26/18)

Another half-assed attempt to lump leftists with Trump from the Extreme Center. This one makes even less sense than all others. 

Korean Voices Missing From Major Papers’ Opinions on Singapore Summit - Adam Johnson, FAIR (6/21/18)

Dozens of takes about the Trump-Kim summit and almost none were from actual Koreans. Only 11 percent of South Koreans saw the summit in a negative light - but 70% of American pundits did. What explains this massive gap in perception?

Desperate Asylum-Seekers Are Being Turned Away by U.S. Border Agents Claiming There’s “No Room” - Debbie Nathan, the Intercept (6/16/18)

The practice of turning away asylum-seekers at the border has suddenly become routine, in defiance of U.S. and international law.

Separating Migrant Families Is Barbaric. It’s Also What the U.S. Has Been Doing to People of Color for Hundreds of Years. - Shaun King, The Intercept (6/20/18)

King gives us a bit of historical context: separating black and brown families is as American as apple pie. 

Workplace Deaths Are Rising. Trump-Era Budget Cuts Could Make It Worse. - Bruce Vail, In These Times (6/18/18)

Trump's wholesale attack on labor is so wide-reaching it's impossible to even keep tabs on how much harm it's having on workers.

Suppressing US War Crimes: The Cold War Denial Machine Lives On - Thomas Powell, truthout (6/24/18)

Biological warfare remains one of the deepest kept secrets of the Cold War.